George F. Gilder is an American

United States

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 writer, techno-utopian

Techno-utopianism

Technological utopianism refers to any ideology based on the belief that advances in science and technology will eventually bring about a utopia, or at least help to fulfill one or another utopian ideal...

 intellectual, Republican Party

Republican Party (United States)

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 activist, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute

Discovery Institute

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. His 1981 bestseller Wealth and Poverty advanced a practical and moral case for capitalism during the early months of the Reagan Administration

Reagan Administration

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In the 1970s Gilder established himself as a critic of feminism

Feminism

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 and government welfare policies; he argued they eroded the "sexual constitution" that socialized men as fathers and providers.